As a fan of SimCity 4, this game delivers upon the city-building niche with a compelling combination of traffic management, city development and a big sandbox to play with. However, there are a number of gripes that I have, which include a number of key options that really should've been in the game that are now being sold as DLC (road-types, trams, special districts, etc.), performance optimizations and the traffic AI which only uses one lane on a four lane road. There are a vast number mods that fix a lot of them (full map usage, parallel asset loading, landmarks, etc.) or to satisfy your cravings, but be aware that it will affect the performance and hope that they also work or don't break your saves when a new update releases.

Cities: Skylines never fails to amaze me with it's visuals alone, it really got the miniature city look, like you could just squash a few houses with your fingertip! Skylines is a learning-by-doing type of game, you will always fail at some points but somehow this game manages to not let it frustrate you! Instead it is exciting to watch new events unfold. Even long time players still enjoy it as the game always is a challenge, but not in a bad or too hard way! This game is a must for anyone who likes to play god and build a little city of your own!

I have been a fan of city builders since I first played Sim City 3000. Like most fans of the genre, I was really disappointed by the latest iteration in the Sim City series. Cities: Skylines is the game that EA should have created. Your cities can be massive by default, and expanded even further using mods. The huge library of DLC includes buildings, modded use of different public transportation systems, different road types, useful intersections, and different information and management panels to supplement the native ones. Updates occur regularly and many of the features in the expansions are included as free updates to the base game. I highly recommend this to anybody interested in city building. I really only have one complaint with the game, and that is the traffic management system. Usually there is little benefit to upgrading roads past four lanes because the traffic flow system doesn't maximize usage of all lanes. If you design your intersections, highways, and public transportation correctly this isn't a huge issue, but it would be nice to have more realistic traffic flow. The developers have said that updating the traffic management system would require players to have a much higher end machine. When compared with Sim City, the tradeoff of larger, more realistic cities in Cities: Skylines is worth the sometimes glitchy traffic system. My only suggestion would be to implement some sort of Academy or Megatower feature similar to those in Sim City. It would help add a new component to the game. Overall, I couldn't recommend this game more. I have put an embarrassing amount of time into this game and I don't see a reason to stop anytime soon. Each city teaches you a new lesson about how to properly expand your city to avoid different issues relating to public services.

A traffic management sim disguised as a city building sim, Cities Skylines is sure to make players cure the idiocy of the common driver.

The maps are decent size and if you have the pc a mod can make it even bigger.The mods are plenty and quiet a few of them are nice.Depite the poor choice for AI and driving it can still be managed without getting the dreaded wave of death by simply not expanding at a rapid pace and they will not die in waves. I do think they should have invested the resources into other things because frankly the biggest eye sore of the game is the fact that they all pile into one lane.They plan out there trip ahead of time and lack the smarts to change it on the fly.I would have prefered to have simulated traffic on roads that just showed generic traffic as highways are useless since they all tend to use one lane the whole trip. In the end it still one the better city sims and i would say buy it if you love building stuff but sadly a pass if you like simulation of running a city SC4 does this a lot better.If only CO would have just took some cues from SC4 and how they did simulation of being a mayor this would be a must buy for all simulation fans regardless if you like to build or manage.